Negotiating authenticity: Three modernities

Learning Each Other's Ropes: Negotiating Interdisciplinary Authenticity

A common feature of the recent calls for reform of the undergraduate biology curriculum has been for better coordination between biology and the courses from the allied disciplines of mathematics, chemistry, and physics. Physics has lagged behind math and chemistry in creating new, biologically oriented curricula, although much activity is now taking place, and significant progress is being mad...

Title: Negotiating Authentic Objects and Authentic Selves: beyond the Deconstruction of Authenticity Negotiating Authentic Objects and Authentic Selves: beyond the Deconstruction of Authenticity Negotiating Authentic Selves and Authentic Objects – the Case of Hilton of Cadboll

Our understanding of authenticity in the material world is characterised by a problematic dichotomy between materialist and constructivist perspectives. Neither explains why people find the issue of authenticity so compelling, nor how it is experienced and negotiated in practice. There is strong evidence supporting the view that prevailing materialist approaches to authenticity are a product of...

Alternative Modernities for Colonial Korea

Islamic Reform and Modernities in South Asia

From the beginning of the Islamic era, Muslim societies have experienced periods of renewal (tajdid). Since the eighteenth century, Muslim societies across the world have been subject to a prolonged and increasingly deeply felt process of renewal. This has been expressed in different ways in different contexts. Amongst political elites with immediate concerns to answer the challenges of the Wes...

the authenticity of three pfl textbooks from the cohesion viewpoint

authentic text is considered to be an important requirement of communicative approach and communicative foreign language teaching textbooks. the present research investigates the authenticity of three pfl textbook by answering the following question: “to what extent are the texts in pfl textbooks considered to be authentic?” accordingly the quantity and quality of cohesion discourse-marker dist...